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No, not the hazmat inspector
There is no reason why Serafettin Ulukent shouldn't cater to these Muslims if they want beaches where women can wear astronaut suits. The problem is that the ideology that leads them to wear these things will ultimately lead them to impose such suits on everyone else as well.
Sharia In Turkey Alert: "Boom in bikini-free holidays as Turkish women cover up," by Nicholas Birch in the Independent, July 7:
When Serafettin Ulukent opened his holiday village in a cove on Turkey's Aegean coast in the 1980s, his first guests were German surfers, who enjoyed the brisk winds, cool beers and chilled-out beach parties. But since he stepped in one day to help 100 conservative Turkish Muslims abandoned by a tour operator, there has been no turning back."The surfers were fun, but these people had real money," he said. Mr Ulukent's hotel became one of the first in Turkey to cater exclusively for devout Muslims – no alcohol, segregated bathing, and a pastry cook who earns an extra £60 a month to sing the call to prayer five times a day.
A decade on, Islamic tourism is the fastest-growing part of Turkey's £10bn industry. A new Islamic hotel recently opened in Bodrum, a resort popular with British tourists where topless bathing is common.
The religious-minded AK Party is in power, but the state enshrines secularism so debates about Islam crystallise around headscarves and women's covering. At the weekend, a group of 50 women in skimpy dresses marched in Istanbul in protest at what they see as the creeping Islamisation of Turkish society after a woman was convicted of exhibitionism for wearing "improper clothing".
Many Turks single out the hotels as evidence of the impact of religious conservatism. Mr Ulukent, a non-practising Muslim, has had his share of fanatics. One guest was angered by music coming from the women's bathing area. "He said it was a sin," explained Mr Ulukent. "We told him to calm down – this is a hotel, not a morgue."
But he thinks it is the patriarchal attitudes of macho Turkish men rather than Islamisation, which is pushing the demand for his kind of hotel. Religious women claim it is they who are punished for their views.
standing with her husband in a travel agency near Istanbul's Taksim Square, Fatma Sarioglu says she was the one demanding a summer holiday in an Islamic hotel, not her husband. "He and the kids can swim anywhere they like," she said. "If these sorts of places didn't exist, I'd have to content myself with the women's hour at the municipal pool."...
Posted by Robert at July 7, 2008 7:50 AM
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What a culture. Imposing of shame and guilt on women. Islam is culture that prays on the weak. It kidnaps people, give a promise of a heaven that has young boys as sex toys for the Jihadis who murder non Muslims for the cause of Allah. It has 72 virgins waiting for these murdering Jihadis in their porn heaven.
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at July 7, 2008 8:09 AM
What's that blue thing? A visitor from another planet?
Posted by: darcy at July 7, 2008 8:32 AM
"He and the kids can swim anywhere they like," she said.
Why only her husband and the kids can swim anywhere they like? Can't she also swim anywhere she likes? Or is she not allowed to? And if so, by whom? Her husband? Her family? Herself? She is showing her lack of freedom, without even recognizing it herself. She is so brainwashed that she has willingly accepted incarceration for the sin of being female.
Posted by: norman at July 7, 2008 9:00 AM
But he thinks it is the patriarchal attitudes of macho Turkish men rather than Islamisation
That Islam is constructed from the patriarchal attitudes of Seventh Century Arab men is purely coincidental. Didn't you just know this sentence would be in the piece before you read it?
Posted by: Beagle at July 7, 2008 9:09 AM
Why isnt she wearing gloves and covering her face?
Posted by: Mr.Fitnah at July 7, 2008 9:23 AM
"But he thinks it is the patriarchal attitudes of macho Turkish men rather than Islamisation"
What's the difference?
at July 7, 2008 9:34 AM
Why isnt she wearing gloves and covering her face?
Posted by: Mr.Fitnah at July 7, 2008 9:23 AM
Yeah, I think she should go Whole Hog into the "I'm nothing as a woman and so must be invisible" Islamic male point-of view.
As I commented yesterday, I no longer feel as sorry for Muslim women as I once did.
Posted by: darcy at July 7, 2008 9:38 AM
Mr Fitnah
You took the words right out of my mou... er fingers - notice also the feet showing of the black klanswoman. Robert ought to be ashamed of himself for converting DW into a soft porn site
;-)
Beagle
Good point. In their eagerness to defend the good name of Islam, they've chosen to throw the males and 'patriarchy' under the bus. Conveniently ignoring, as you point out, that it's Islam that reinforces this misogyny in the first place.
Posted by: Infidel Pride at July 7, 2008 9:54 AM
Errata: rather than 'reinforces', I should have said 'initiates' above. Although I'll admit that I have no idea whether the pre-Islamic Turks in the Turanian regions or native Anatolians in the Byzantine empire were as misogynistic or not.
Posted by: Infidel Pride at July 7, 2008 9:56 AM
I wonder if they are aware that by covering their body up they are depriving themselves of Vitamin D?
Posted by: pak152 at July 7, 2008 10:05 AM
>>notice also the feet showing of the black klanswoman. Robert ought to be ashamed of himself for converting DW into a soft porn site --Infidel Pride
LOL! Come on, Infidel, stop staring at her uncovered feet, now!
Love the bikinied women walking past, seemingly oblivious to the "Yes, I'm a willing victim of Islam in all sorts of ways" covered freaks.
"black klanswoman" - LOL, you're cracking me up today, Infidel Pride!
at July 7, 2008 10:08 AM
Oh I missed those uncovered piggies!
Posted by: Mr.Fitnah at July 7, 2008 10:19 AM
Look at the kid on the left.
He's probably sitting there humming along with the Beach Boys ... http://youtube.com/watch?v=CU5IODKNbNs
Posted by: undaunted at July 7, 2008 10:35 AM
Once again Islam forces poor health on women by not recognizing the way human bodies function -- we need sunlight. Darker skinned women need even more sunlight. Google: sunlight and vitamin d deficiency. Muslim dress codes are harmful to women and potentially to their children. Such misogyny by Muhammad and his Allah.
Darcy: I agree with you. I used to feel sorry for Muslim women, but they are indeed willing captives who have submitted to their fate. Muslim women will be emancipated only when they revolt. Of course, we should encourage that revolution.
Posted by: Liberal Guy at July 7, 2008 10:47 AM
Covered up like that, what's the point of going to the beach at all?
Posted by: ImNoDhimmi at July 7, 2008 11:49 AM
Covered up like that, what's the point of going to the beach at all?
Posted by: ImNoDhimmi
Clearly so they can be outraged by the haram behaviour of the kafir.
Banana hammocks for all! OK, maybe not the ladies.....
Posted by: Abu_Lahab at July 7, 2008 12:02 PM
From a story about Turkey two years ago:
"An attack by Islamists on a young Turkish woman wearing a bikini on a beach has reopened the question of the direction that the country"
"The young woman had asked a group of headscarf-wearing women and their families not to soil the beach with the used diapers of their children, only to be called a prostitute because she was wearing a bikini. She was then attacked by the men in the group."
"Luxury hotels have opened on the coast that apply strict Islamist rules, offering guests, for example, beaches and swimming pools segregated by sex."
"Sales of hasema swimming costumes that cover religiously-observant women from head to toe and include a headcovering are booming."
"Newspapers have meantime reported other incidents on beaches involving Islamists.
"A fundamentalist sect known as the Rufai set up a makeshift camp at Sile in the northwest near Istanbul and for two months stopped holidaymakers from walking along part of a public beach because of the presence of women in their group, the Radikal newspaper reported.
"Late on August 23 the tents were taken down following protests, the paper said.
"In yet another incident a dancer with the Ankara ballet was attacked by Islamists because he swam in a creek at Seferihisar in the west of the country while headscarved women were relaxing in the area, Cumhuriyet reported."
"Wives of most senior officials in the AKP [Islamic political party in Turkey] wear the headscarf, including [Prime Minister] Erdogan."
Posted by: DenverRodeo at July 7, 2008 12:13 PM
I've heard of attacks on women at beaches in Denmark. So this is nothing really new.
Sadly enough.
Europe used to be so much fun!
On a lighter note, why doesn't the burka-babe [we call them penguins] wear a scuba diving outfit?
That way she can enjoy the underwater landscape too.
Posted by: Ummah Gummah at July 7, 2008 2:18 PM
The truly IRONIC thing is that the freedom-loving folks will get skin cancer ... whereas the chick in the blue spacesuit, who follows a human-rights-violating polical system in the guise of religion, won't.
Posted by: Lori B. at July 7, 2008 2:36 PM
I can't decide whether that thing is a person wearing a biohazard suit (minus head shield) or Tinky Winky without the antennae.
http://c.wrzuta.pl/wi2952/ade359ca0026a68646712415/Tinky%20Winky%20?type=i&key=z8wVKiEfgR&ft=f
Here are some more babes wearing the full suit.
http://hasema-swimsuits.fotopages.com/
at July 7, 2008 3:33 PM
Wonderful! I think these shameing suits should be jammed in the faces and on to the bodies of feminists & leftists everywhere, from Malibu to Provence. Push it, shove it, demand it. Come on muslim, you can do it if you try! Bring it to a boil, summer of '08!
Posted by: MontyRockIV at July 7, 2008 5:55 PM
Muslim women need more sharp knives and fewer dull hijabs.
The men will eventually get the point.
Posted by: profitsbeard at July 7, 2008 10:25 PM
Is that a Burka Blue singer?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpH83Vi7b9E
Posted by: Johnathan at July 8, 2008 1:50 AM
"What's that blue thing? A visitor from another planet?"
No darcy, you silly goose. It's one of the Telly Tubbies.
Tinky Winky I think.
Posted by: Toejam at July 8, 2008 2:52 AM
From a story about Turkey two years ago:
"An attack by Islamists on a young Turkish woman wearing a bikini on a beach has reopened the question of the direction that the country"
"The young woman had asked a group of headscarf-wearing women and their families not to soil the beach with the used diapers of their children, only to be called a prostitute because she was wearing a bikini. She was then attacked by the men in the group." --DenverRodeo
What, they were leaving soiled diapers on the beach? Who do they think they are! And the bikinied woman called a whore. It's unbelievable. And of course since she's wearing a bathing suit, that gives Islamic males carte blanche to attack. Revolting, so revolting.
A sick culture and we are letting the sickness in in droves.
Posted by: darcy at July 8, 2008 9:00 AM
Sharia In Turkey Alert: "Boom in bikini-free holidays as Turkish women cover up".
Why everyone sound so perplexed ? This is nothing but a natural outcome of the U.S policy involving "mild islamisation of Turkey".
After all, it was the good ol' USA which gave shelter to sect leader Fettullah Gulen when he was on the "terrorist list" of the previous and more secular government, wasn't it ?
Folks, if Turkey one day collapses to an -all and out- islamic regime, given that there are nearly 3 mn turkish workers in germany and around close to 800.000 in France, Belgium, Netherlands, the after-effects of the islamic earthquake will be wildly felt in Eurabia, you can bet your life on that.
Forget about the Euro-jerks, but if one day, USA and Israel attack on Iran, they may badly need an ally in the area.
Unfortunately, they will look around in vain to find their old and secular ally.
Posted by: Icarus_Project at July 8, 2008 10:35 AM
I am saddened to read what is happening n turkey, which used to be a great place for holidays in the 80s where there was little hint of islam. I shall not be returning. And I hope now that turkey will never become part of Europe as the fundamentalism will surely creep in year on year. Oh dear, how sad.
Posted by: bee at July 8, 2008 12:43 PM
Forget bikinis and nude beaches; there's nothing like the crackle of an oversized blue vinyl swim burka in the gentle ocean breeze to make believer and infidel alike go wild!
Posted by: RalphInfidel at July 8, 2008 4:52 PM
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